I’m amazed that no one has put the chords for this up already. It’s a ukulele classic. I suppose it is more than a little over shadowed on A Night at the Opera with it being followed by Bohemian Rhapsody.

It’s no surprise that Brian May learnt the ukulele before the guitar. This performance is definitely not one of someone who is playing the ukulele like a guitar. He’s throwing in a lot of Formby moves. There are a few triplets and, in the solo, a bunch of sort-of-split-strokes.

I think he must be tuned up half a step to G#C#FA#. They certainly seem to be the more natural chord shapes. And they match the chord shapes he’s using in this clip of him discussing the track (but the uke is tuned way down).

For the strumming, he’s doing mainly down strums with a few triplets thrown in to liven things up.

Hey, Al –
“Good Company” is one of my favorites – thanks for posting!
I just played that song at a show a couple of weeks ago, and “Dreamer’s Ball,” too. Brian May got me started on uke when I saw him play it on “Bring Back that Leroy Brown” with Queen.

And please forgive my intrusion (I still herald your greatness), but is there a typo in your chord chart? Perhaps this D7 should be a Db7:

F F7 Bb D7 C7 Bbm Dm
I hardly noticed Sally as we parted company

F F7 Bb Db7 C7 Bbm Dm
I hardly noticed Sally as we parted company

— Al, you are the Freddie Mercury of UWG (Ukulele Website Guys). Thanks!

Ukulelia –
I don’t know if he has that exact vid up. When Youtube dumped him, he had about 300 videos posted. With his new screen name, I guess he’s only uploaded a few thus far. If you e-mailed him, he’d probably re-load it.

Well this is the best transcription of this song i’ve found so far. Thank you for posting it. One point is that I think the tune is actually a semi tone higher in F#Maj which means lots more barring of chords. As mentioned in previous posts I could just tune my uke sharp but then I don’t want to keep changing my tuning. Maybe this is the excuse I need to buy another uke ;)